Kiyoshi Tamura
30–11 · 48 recorded bouts · 1992–2008
30–11
Kiyoshi Tamura finished 73% of 30 wins inside the distance — the 38th percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Kiyoshi Tamura — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-01
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-05-01. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 244 middleweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Masakatsu Funaki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Hideo Tokoro | Submission | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Taiei Kin | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Makoto Takimoto | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Aliev Makhmud | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Rony Sefo | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Hidehiko Yoshida | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Nobuhiko Takada | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Bob Sapp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Wanderlei Silva | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Gustavo Machado | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Renato Sobral | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Pat Miletich | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Jeremy Horn | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Gilbert Yvel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Renato Sobral | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Borislav Jeliazkov | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Joop Kasteel | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | D | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Draw | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Tariel Bitsadze | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Frank Shamrock | Draw | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Submission | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Valentijn Overeem | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kenichi Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | D | Tsuyoshi Kohsaka | Draw | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Tariel Bitsadze | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Mikhail Ilyukhin | Submission | — |
| 1997 | W | Hans Nijman | Submission | — |
| 1997 | W | Volk Han | Submission | — |
| 1997 | W | Tsuyoshi Kohsaka | Submission | — |
| 1997 | W | Andre Mannaart | Submission | — |
| 1996 | W | Mikhail Ilyukhin | Submission | — |
| 1996 | W | Maurice Smith | Submission | — |
| 1995 | W | Patrick Smith | Submission | — |
| 1995 | W | Masahito Kakihara | Submission | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Matthew Saad Muhammad | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Zaza Tkeshelashvili | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Renzo Gracie | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Dave Menne | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Akira Maeda | — | — |
| undated | W | Joop Kasteel | KO/TKO | — |
| undated | W | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Mitsuya Nagai | Submission | — |
39 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Kiyoshi Tamura — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-01
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70.9″ (180 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 3: heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 21 of 41 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Kiyoshi Tamura, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
30–11
44 bouts on record
Finish rate
73%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 38th percentile
The career, bout by bout
48 recorded bouts from 1992 to 2008. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
1992–2008
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1999
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
48
41 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Kiyoshi Tamura's record?
- 30–11 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 48 bouts individually.
- How many of Kiyoshi Tamura's bouts have no date?
- 7 of 48. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 244 middleweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Tamura sits inside.
244 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA21 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsKiyoshi Tamura went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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